The wait is over, DC fans no longer have to contend with a Marvel-only Dice Masters universe! Yes, the DC Dice Masters starter and boosters dropped last week, providing materials for players to incorporate DC characters like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and more into their Dice Masters games.

Set in the world of Evil Hat‘s Spirit of the Century, Zeppelin Attack! allows players to control villainous masterminds bent on world domination. Deploy your zeppelins, command your minions, and do whatever it takes to destroy your rivals. Perfect for two to four players, Zeppelin Attack!will plays for forty-five to sixty minutes.

Demonslayer: The Siege of Mt. Kunlun is a deck-building game based on the story of the “Warriors of Magic Mountain.” Each player takes control of one Sect of the Kunlun Immortals, and they must compete with each other in defeating the dread forces of the Heart-Eaters. At the end of the game, once all the Heart-Eaters are defeated, the player with the most Cultivation is the winner. An English translation of a previously released foreign edition, this version includes one of the game’s expansions, The Alchemist’s Fortune.

Xenoshyft is a game for one to four players, with each player controlling one of the divisions of the Nortec Military. Each of these divisions represents one part of the overall Nortec Base, and it is your job as commander of these divisions to protect the base while its field operations are completed. A cooperative game, Xenoshyft asks players to outlast a horde of aliens over the course of nine rounds.

The third My Little Pony set released from Enterplay, Absolute Discord sees the arrival of Discord to the Pony-verse, throwing the spirit of chaos at players as a means to turn the game upside down. Cards and actions now can perform the opposite of what they are labeled as doing. With over two hundred cards in Absolute Discord, players have plenty of new options to add to their decks!

Bring video gaming to your board game table with Super Dungeon Explore: Forgotten King! An entirely original base game set for this popular series of games, Forgotten King includes nearly sixty new miniature figures to battle through and with in the automated dungeon setting! Inspired by 16-Bit video gaming, Super Dungeon Explore can be played in either Classic or Arcade mode, allowing for cooperative play or to be pitted against a GM. Also out this week is the first Upgrade Kit for this version of the game.

The BahamutD&D Attack Wing premium figure features powerful upgrades, abilities, and tokens to bring your adventures to epic proportions! This powerful dragon sits upon a six inch by six inch base and utilize his cold breath attacks to any enemy in his path.

The newest Data Pack for the Netrunner Deck Building Game, Breaker Bay contains sixty new cards designed to augment Corp and Runner decks. These sixty cards are numbers twenty-one through forty of the SanSan Cycle, all able to be incorporated into the base Netrunner game.

Another expansion for the short film inspired Eight-Minute Empire: Legends, Lost Lands incorporates new factions and leaders, materials for for a fifth and sixth player, a double-sized island on a folded board, and allows for faster gameplay, as players can now select cards simultaneously.

A new release in the popular D&D dungeon crawl cooperative board games, Temple of Elemental Evil puts players in control of a heroic adventurer exploring a treacherous dungeon full of monsters, hazards, and treasures. Anywhere from one to five players can take part in the adventure, cooperatively navigating the dungeon in no more than an hour.

The newest Dungeons and Dragons 5.0 adventure hardcover, Princes of the Apocalypse, is out today. This volume includes a full adventure for characters levels one to fifteen as well as new spells and an entirely new, playable race, the element-touched genasi.

Players looking for a new two player experience (which is not always the easiest endeavor), should check out Steam Torpedo First Contact. Following the first world war, players take control of submarines and battle with each other for oceanic dominance. First, you will construct a submarine from select parts, resulting in hundreds of possibilities. Second, you pit these submarines against each other in a battle of underwater tactics.

In Realm of Heroes, players will balance a number of resources, including building castles and recruiting heroes that will become your army. The trick is that the game board will alter as the game progresses, making it incredibly difficult to consistently field your army and plan your strategy.

Dragons of Tarkir, the third set in the Khans of Tarkir block and the final set of Magic before the company switches to the new two set release schedule, is out this weekend. As is normal, this release means that not only are booster packs on sale, but also Fat Packs, Event Decks, Intro Decks, and the standard assortment of sleeves, deck boxes, and playmats.

Anyone who enjoys resource management games like Belfort, Clockwork Kingdom is a steampunk version of the same. After the king of the Clockwork Kingdom has passed away, it’s a free for all for the throne and you will be playing one of the nominees! In order to claim victory, you will need to make strategic decisions to claim workers, resources, build mechanisms, and encounter other opponents on the battlefield.

A parallel game to the highly popular Star Wars X-Wing miniature game, Star Wars Armada, is finally on shelves. This hotly anticipated release is a to scale ship-to-ship battle game where players control capital class ships, like the Star Destroyer and the Corellian Corvette, as well as lower class ships, like Tie Fighters and X-Wings. All the ships move on a template system, similar to but unique enough from X-Wing.

Like that extra cybernetic eye you had installed last week, the Shadowrun Crossfire Character Expansion Pack 1 extends the usability of the Shadowrun Crossfire Deck Building Game. Included in this reasonably priced expansion pack are twenty entirely new runner cards, four basic cards, and one hundred (you read that right!) upgrade stickers.

If you thought Love Letter had a lot of variations before, then you’ll be shocked to find out another one has hit the shelves. Love Letter The Hobbit overlays the world of J.R.R. Tolkein’s Middle Earth onto the mechanics of this incredibly popular card game. However, this version of Love Letter provides a twist on the previous versions as players struggle to locate the Arkenstone before Smaug catches on.

Dungeon and Dragons miniatures have not been prevalent after the dissolution of fourth edition, but Wizards of the Coast and Gale Force Nine are changing that this weekend. The D&D Collector’s Series of miniatures is an extremely limited edition set of unpainted miniature figures to be used in the roleplaying game. In the initial line are an Eye Tyrant Beholder, Lolth Demon Queen of Spiders, a Illithid Raiding Party, and Drow War Party.

Another mini expansion for the popular Marvel Deck Building Game, Legendary, is out this weekend. Legendary Fear Itself incorporates characters from the comic event of the same name, each of which is empowered by an Asgardian hammer akin to Thor‘s Mjolnir. Included in the expansion are one hundred playable cards, six allies, one commander (Uru-Enchanted Iron Man), one adversary group, and three new plots.

The violent tricksters of Warhammer 40K receive their own hardcover codex this weekend. The awaited Harlequin Codex has arrived, including in its glossy pages a detailed history of the faction, a gallery of paint schemes and miniature options, a comprehensive army list, and an appendix full of rules for fielding the armies of the Harlequin faction.

Wizards of the Coast and Asmodee have joined forces to produce the newest version of Dice Masters on the market. Battle for Faerun is a Dungeon and Dragons themed version of Dice Masters where sets of dice represent characters and creatures from the popular roleplaying game. Working like a deck building game but with dice, players assemble teams by purchasing assortments dice. Out this weekend is a two player starter set and the standard booster pack assortment.

Objectively the most amazing expansion pack for the Smash Up card game to date, Pretty Pretty Smash Up is out this weekend. Basically, the grungy, spooky, monstrous factions have had their day in Smash Up and now it’s time for some cute and cuddly options. Included within this box are four entirely new factions, including Kitty Cats (featuring some familiar furry faces from the Internet), Princesses, Fairies, and, for all the Bronies out there, Mythic Horses. All your vampires, pirates, and Cthulhus don’t stand a chance!

Just as the title advertises, Sentinels of the Multiverse expands into the far reaches of the galaxy with its newest expansion. Wrath of the Cosmos is another expansion for the highly popular superhero cooperative card game, coming with two new space-based heroes, four galactic-level baddies, and environments where no one can hear you scream.

From the company behind Super Dungeon Explorer comes another dungeon crawler with an anime flare! Arcadia Quest pits guilds of explorers against each other as they traverse the lair of the vampire lord. Each guild is tasked to complete various scenarios, only moving onward when they have been accomplished. However, guilds can mess with each other in an attempt to deter opponents.

A rare two to eight player game, Camel Up is a bidding and dice rolling game centered around a pack of racing camels. Five camels race around a pyramid while players roll dice to determine the amount of spaces each camel moves. In between dice rolls, players can bet on their favored camel, earning more points at the end of the game based on how early they placed their bet. But beware, the camels have a few tricks up their sleeves, including jumping on top of each other.

Ole Doomtown‘s fillin’ up mighty quickly, pardner. The newly remade Doomtown: Reloaded card game receives its second expansion decks this weekend. Following up on New Town, New Rules, Double Dealin’ explores the fallout of Gomorrah’s first mayoral election with four copies of twenty-one new cards that can be incorporated into the base game.

If you can’t tell from the title, Roll for the Galaxy is Rio Grande Games‘ dice variation on the popular Race for the Galaxy card game series. Roll for the Galaxy uses dice to represent interplanetary settlers as the populated local star systems. Two to five players will roll their dice in an attempt to manage their settlers in relation to technology and other resources, hopefully coming out on top.

The Verse is a big place and Firefly: The Game – Blue Sun aims to explore it. This third expansion for the board game based off of the cult favorite series provides a board extension called The Rim. This dangerous edge of the galaxy is rough terrain, but comes populated with new missions, crew opportunities, and a new supply planet for players to misbehave in. And, of course, a new nav deck steers your ship through all of this Reaver populated territory.

Since Gale Force Nine had difficulty keeping their D&D Next/5.0 Dungeon Master‘s screen in print, Wizards of the Coast stepped in and made one themselves. Frankly, there’s is better. A four panel, fold-out screen, this hard cardstock accessory provides all of the essential stats and tips a game master needs to keep his players spellbound and struggling along.

Following in the footsteps of Steve Jackson‘s Munchkin series, Star Realms (the exponentially expandable deck building game) receives four new, non-randomized booster pack expansions this week. Each of these four packs can be incorporated into any amount of the base game. Star Realms: Crisis – Bases & Battleships includes a new ship for each faction as well as eight additional ships. Star Realms: Crisis – Heroes provide an entirely new card type called the Hero. Star Realms: Crisis – Fleets & Fortresses contains a new base for each faction, plus eight new ships. And, finally, Star Realms: Crisis – Events also adds a new card type called Events.

Out this weekend, the newest variation of the popular deception game, Bang!, is a Walking Dead edition. In this version, the standard deputy, sheriff, outlaw, and other designations are replaced with leader, savior, survivor, and loner. Each player takes on one of these roles while playing a character from the hit TV series.

Based off the popular series of novels and video games, The Witcher receives a board game adaptation this weekend. The Witcher Adventure Game throws players into a fantasy scenario where they control one of four characters, including Triss Merigold, Yarpen Zigrin, Geralt, and Dandelion, each represented by a deck of ability cards. Choosing which character to play also decides how a player will approach each encounter, as some characters favor magic while other favor diplomacy or attacking.

Warhammer‘s recently released deck building game, Warhammer 40K Conquest, receives its first expansion deck with The Howl of Blackmane. Included in this expansion is a playable Space Marine character and his supporting unit, comprised of three sets of seventeen cards, similar to any of the expansion packs to Fantasy Flight‘s other Living Card Games.

Another trick-taking card game, similar to Clubs, Rowboat, or Spades, Diamonds changes up the common mechanic for a new experience. Players take turns laying down suited cards, attempting to match the previous suit. However, if a player cannot match the suit they are given they are awarded a “suit action,” which allow the movement of cards from different piles of cards.

Coming in off the flight deck this weekend is a full set of four new World War II Wings of Glory Special Packs. Each of these Special Packs includes a full-sized airplane model for use in the Wings of Glory ship-to-ship battle game. This series includes the BF-17F Memphis Belle, the BF-17G Bit of Lace, Avro Lancaster B MK III v.1, and the Avro Lancaster B MK III v.2.

Formerly only a tournament exclusive miniature, the Deep Space Nine space station is finally out to purchase at retail stores. This oversized model can be incorporated into the Star Trek Attack Wing miniature battle game as either a ship or a scenario.

Following the release of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer, the X-Wing miniature game keeps the hype going with two large miniature expansions. First up, is the VT-49 Decimator, an imperial gunship that pushes the limits of size within the standard play scenarios. The Decimator expansion also includes thirteen different upgrade cards, including fan favorite Mara Jade. Second, the only ship that will do when the Millennium Falcon is tied up, the YT-2400. Dash Rendar, Han Solo’s understudy, is included as a character card with the expansion, along with many others.

The much delayed Dungeon Master’s Guide for Dungeons and Dragons Next (or 5.0, if you wish) is finally here! This new edition distills the best material from all past versions of the DM’s Guide, including rules from 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5. Besides providing information about the three core elements of a DM’s Guide, those being world and adventure building, rules essentials, and magic items, the hardcover also contains helpful hints and tips, like how to design a villain and treasure tables.

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